Word: handstands
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...ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger girl how to do a handstand on the balance point of a teeterboard...
Dooley was correct on most counts, except he wasn't counting on Palmer. "I walked in there and there was Vicki doing a handstand I couldn't believe it. If I didn't know it before. I knew it then women's athletics was different from men's If that had been a men's team, everyone would've been banging down the walls and had fire coming out of their nostrils...
...there's Vicki, doing a handstand in the middle of the locker room I lost it when I saw that. I had to walk out side and regain my composure," Dooley concludes...
...days after that now infamous handstand, Palmer joined Lightfoot as the squad's Co-Captain. That, she says, is one of her greatest memories of Harvard women's hockey...
...best, displaying not only solid technical skills but the flair and inventiveness that raise their sport to art. Conner's performance on the parallel bars was such a blend. Legs spread in a straddle position, he supported himself on one bar, pressed slowly up into a handstand - then shifted to a one-armed handstand. He was the only finalist even to attempt such a stunt. For making the difficult look easy, Conner earned a 9.90 score and a gold medal...